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Posts tagged with 'cultclassic' at MetaFilter.Thu, 21 Mar 2013 15:47:07 -0800Thu, 21 Mar 2013 15:47:07 -0800en-ushttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss60Just In Time For The Equinoxhttp://www.metafilter.com/126223/Just%2DIn%2DTime%2DFor%2DThe%2DEquinox
About a week ago<a href="http://storify.com/doingitwrong/tedxsummerisle"> a series of tweets began to appear promoting a new TEDx conference taking place with all the normal social media bluster and back-patting</a> - but was it? The event's<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summerisle_%28The_Wicker_Man%29"> isolated location</a> should've set off warning bells (<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/89681/A-frog-who-would-come-here-of-his-own-free-will">previously</a>) when the tweets from "TedxSummerisle" because increasingly worrisome<a href="http://tedxsummerisle.tumblr.com/"> as the conference tumblr began posting videos with titles like "Our Friends the Bees, and Nanotech" and "The Secret Science of the Ancients"</a>. (<a href="http://metachat.org/index.php/2013/03/21/tedxsummerisle#comments">via</a>) tag:metafilter.com,2013:site.126223Thu, 21 Mar 2013 15:47:07 -0800The WhelkBrother Power started out as a dummy left in an abandoned tailor shop inhabited by a bunch of shiftless hippieshttp://www.metafilter.com/50084/Brother%2DPower%2Dstarted%2Dout%2Das%2Da%2Ddummy%2Dleft%2Din%2Dan%2Dabandoned%2Dtailor%2Dshop%2Dinhabited%2Dby%2Da%2Dbunch%2Dof%2Dshiftless%2Dhippies
It's 1968. Hippies are everywhere, and they're reading underground comics. Your name is <a href="http://www.simoncomics.com/jsbio.htm">Joe Simon</a>. You want to create a mainstream comic book with a hippie as a hero. What do you come up with? <a href="http://www.toonopedia.com/geek.htm">Brother<a> <a href="http://www.comicbookresources.com/columns/index.cgi?column=moto&article=708">Power</a> the <a href="http://tk.files.storage.msn.com/x1pHtie7xXg_8bMPf6t8KKaHKyyvz_BoDpNM1q4RFkAoVIVcPqqGdh3MDnhR1ndG7REjkcd5mxjEZN06oEKqSLMUHl3xmztTSO6xY00McaIU-Al5uEWrpMh2ffFlr846l2C">Geek</a>.<br><br>
It only lasted two issues. Of course, it did a little better than the <a href="http://www.proudrobot.com/hembeck/blacklightning.html">Black Bomber</a>, a white bigot who sometimes turned into an African-American superhero. That comic was <i>never</i> printed.</a></a> tag:metafilter.com,2006:site.50084Wed, 15 Mar 2006 13:13:03 -0800Astro Zombie